<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>According to the UI Human Resources' Employees Benefits web page at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.uidaho.edu/benefits/whoiseligibleforcoverage">http://www.uidaho.edu/benefits/whoiseligibleforcoverage</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 11px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 15px; ">Your Children</h2><p style="font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">A child under the age of 26; For purposes of the plan, a "child" means your:</p><ul style="position: relative; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); "><li style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">Biological child</li><li style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">Legally adopted child or child placed with you for adoption</li><li style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">Stepchild living with you</li><li style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">Child for whom you are the legal guardian</li><li style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px; ">Child who is required to be covered by a Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMSCO)</li></ul><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">--------------------------------</span><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Tom Hansen</span></div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"Honest and true,</span></div><div>As the morning star.</div><div>Vote for just two,</div><div>Ament and Lamar."</div></div><div><br>On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:01 AM, "Rosemary Huskey" <<a href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Saundra and Visionaries,</span><br><span>What person or committee negotiates insurance contracts for the University</span><br><span>of Idaho? I remember several years ago when we had concerns about UI</span><br><span>insurance decisions Saundra and I were told that no minutes were kept of</span><br><span>those meetings. The road blocks placed in our path for Freedom of</span><br><span>Information requests made it unfeasible for us to continue to press the</span><br><span>matter. The lack of transparency, and total absence of accountability was</span><br><span>appalling and presented a thirty foot brick wall for ordinary citizens to</span><br><span>scale. Which reminds me, has any information about Bustamante been</span><br><span>released? It is no wonder that UI is losing credibility across Idaho. </span><br><span>Rose Huskey</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]</span><br><span>On Behalf Of Saundra Lund</span><br><span>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:57 AM</span><br><span>To: 'Vision 2020'</span><br><span>Cc: <a href="mailto:martyt@lmtribune.com">martyt@lmtribune.com</a>; <a href="mailto:lrozen@dnews.com">lrozen@dnews.com</a>; <a href="mailto:benefits@uidaho.edu">benefits@uidaho.edu</a>;</span><br><span><a href="mailto:president@uidaho.edu">president@uidaho.edu</a></span><br><span>Subject: [Vision2020] UI & Discrimination Against Stepchildren</span><br><span></span><br><span>Visionaries:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Just when I thought the UI was finished sinking to slimy depths with respect</span><br><span>to employee & retiree health coverage and had started to rebound in a good</span><br><span>way, I've found I was wrong. Instead, the UI has now descended to new</span><br><span>unimaginable & unfathomable discriminatory anti-family lows. We received</span><br><span>our Open Enrollment package in the mail today, and I'm incredibly offended .</span><br><span>. . and hurt.</span><br><span></span><br><span>You see, a stepchild isn't considered to be a part of the employee's family</span><br><span>anymore unless he/she lives at home. This is in direct contrast to</span><br><span>"biological" and "adopted" children who are eligible to be covered by UI</span><br><span>health insurance until they turn 26 regardless of where they live. Shoot, a</span><br><span>"biological" child under age 26 could even get married, have children, move</span><br><span>to another country . . . and *still* be eligible to be covered on his/her</span><br><span>parent's health care insurance through the UI.</span><br><span></span><br><span>But the stepchildren of UI employees? Nope, sorry -- too bad, so sad. We</span><br><span>apparently took the wrong approach in encouraging OUR daughter to work</span><br><span>towards self-sufficiency. Maybe we should just force her to move back in</span><br><span>with us so we can get her health insurance coverage through the UI again</span><br><span>(she got booted off when she turned 19; she's 21 now).</span><br><span></span><br><span>And, never mind the fact that my dh has been the ONLY father OUR daughter</span><br><span>has ever known -- he's been her father since she was not quite two, through</span><br><span>elementary school, through junior high school, and through high school</span><br><span>graduation -- which is a lot longer than many marriages last these days, and</span><br><span>through the wee hours of today. We're still going strong as a family, the</span><br><span>ONLY family our daughter has EVER known.</span><br><span></span><br><span>According to the UI, my husband is apparently not OUR daughter's "real"</span><br><span>father in spite of the fact that we are legally married and in spite of the</span><br><span>fact that my husband lived with OUR daughter full-time from diapers through</span><br><span>the years when -- were we were a civilized society, all girls between 13 &</span><br><span>16 would be sent to a desert island to torment only each other -- and high</span><br><span>school graduation. And, we're still going strong as a family, the ONLY</span><br><span>family our daughter has EVER known.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We had her last name legally changed before she started kindergarten so</span><br><span>there would NEVER be any doubts about who her family was, but none of that</span><br><span>is good enough for the UI.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Nope -- she's a "just" a stepchild, according to the UI . . . not worthy of</span><br><span>being considered a part of our family for health insurance purposes.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We found nothing in the UI Open Enrollment materials indicating the</span><br><span>rationale for this decidedly anti-family definition of children, a</span><br><span>definition that is at odds with the health insurance definitions of the</span><br><span>State of Idaho, LCSC, NIC, BSU, ISU, etc. Given the fact that the UI is</span><br><span>self-insured, it is the UI that is calling the shots -- that definition</span><br><span>*wasn't* dictated by some big, bad health insurance carrier.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Once again, the UI has taken a position that penalizes its loyal employees</span><br><span>and their families, and I'm frankly beyond.</span><br><span></span><br><span>It's been difficult enough that virtually each year my dh has been employed</span><br><span>by the UI, we've gotten poorer & poorer due to no wage increases & wages</span><br><span>falling further & further behind peer institutions -- let alone inflation --</span><br><span>but this discriminatory definition of children really is a bridge too far,</span><br><span>and it seems to me the mental giants behind this crappola are vastly</span><br><span>overpaid. Waste at the UI? You betcha!</span><br><span></span><br><span>There is, no doubt, a special place in Hades reserved for those at the UI</span><br><span>responsible for what is essentially an institutionalization of the</span><br><span>Cinderella effect, but that's unlikely to offer any meaningful solace -- or</span><br><span>help -- to UI families that happen to encompass young adult stepchildren.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Saundra Lund</span><br><span>Moscow, ID</span><br><span></span><br><span>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do</span><br><span>nothing.</span><br><span>~Edmund Burke</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net"><a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net"><a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>